I've written this before...Leilani Kilgore is one of the best musicians currently, and a must listen for all guitarists.

I play guitar, bass, and Logic's piano on this cover. I use the pictured guitar (Fender Lead 1 body, roasted maple neck with satin nitro, Fender humbucker, good pots etc.).

I'm Gonna Leave You (Leilani Kilgore Cover)

Outside

My latest album release “Hexad” is exclusive to Soundcloud and consists of 4 tracks all related through themes/sounds and by using a maximum of 6 synthesizers (+ vox samples of me from my Octatrack). Hexad I-IV differ somewhat in mood, structure, melody & length. Slower, more downtempo vibe here as the tempo sits around 88-110 bpm. Enjoy!

Hexad II

Butterflies at Night

“I’ve known by best friend since we were aged 10. We are really close, like brothers. We tell each other things we’d never tell anyone else – not even our other halves!
When we were kids, on occasions, we get in trouble together and that kind of helps to forge that close long-lasting bond with each other. I know that if I was in trouble now he’d be there for me and really support me.
I think everyone who has a best friend genuinely appreciates that special relationship that you can only have with that person. For me, having written this song, is a small way of thanking my best friend and genuinely showing him how grateful I am for his enduring friendship.” John Cristal - singer/songwriter

My Friend For Life

Benjamin Russell channels Tony Bennett and Sparks in his new video, performed in the Blueberry Ice Cream Room, a lounge on a plane between the Love Dimension and somewhere else.

The song explores the generational divide which has flipped since Cat Stevens wrote "Father and Son" in which the son implores his father to understand his point of view. Here, a father attempts the reverse.

VALE OF PAIN is from his brand spanking new PLEASURE CENTER album, available everywhere.

Music video: https://studio.youtube.com/video/rPRbn_txHz0/edit

Pleasure Center

Vale Of Pain

What started as my keyboard/vocal cover has evolved into this full band reproduction!! Amazing additions by my friends over on Bandlab... Fabian (@fabass2020) on bass, Ross (@ross_man) on guitar, and Craig (@craigclontz) on drums.

**Full Band Revision- Can't Get It Out Of My Head (ELO Cover)

This song was dedicated to my girlfriend Bozena whom I love with all my heart and soon we are going to get married! In the song I used the following Sequential Circuits Drumtraks synthesizers in the percussion and for the bass melody sounds and arpeggios I used 2 hardware synthesizers Prophet vs ! To tell the truth, these synthesizers are made more for composing experimental music but I found a way around it and composed a synth pop song and the vocoder is missing, which is a Korg VC-10 to tell the truth, I left the voice frozen and recorded it and then introduced it to the multitrack and it worked! To tell the truth, sometimes managing so many synth hardware at the same time becomes complicated but it worked

Te amo

The title track for the upcoming second album from Arcane Synthetic featuring Jonathan Ashwell from Skitch Hiker.

A New Era & Nothing More

Lover or a friend - Miper & Moneira

j'avais autrefois accompagné au piano (réel) , aux percussions et à l'harmonica (virtuels) une très belle voix trouvé sur Looperman : cela avait donné cette folksong. Là voilà nouvellement remastérisée

Memory's Loved Pictures

The Maverick Band is a virtual reality band. It launched in June 2023. It was set up by John Cristal, the songwriter/singer. 

The Maverick Band’s music is probably best described as ‘easy listening’ pop but perhaps with a little hint of folk music and occasionally some Latino mixed in.

John invites wonderfully talented guest musicians and singers to help him create and produce the songs he has written. 

John started learning the guitar in January 2023,

Only eight weeks into learning guitar, John decided to write and compose his first song. He was told not to bother writing songs as it was too early and should just focus on practising & learning the guitar.

Well, being the maverick that he is, he decided to ignore that advice and so far has written 14 songs!

And now you know why the band’s called The Maverick Band too! Coincidentally, John’s favourite films are Top Gun and Top Gun Maverick.

“I guess I’ve always been a bit of a rule breaker, even when I was at school. I hate being told what to do or being told it can’t be done. That just fires me up to prove them wrong! I hope at least one or two of the songs become big hits. I’d love to see the faces of all the doubters!”

Many of the songs that John has written are based on real life observations & his own real experiences; John’s songs are often mini stories, taking the listener on a journey.

My Friend For Life

The Maverick Band

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